No one expected it to be Harry and Meghan who led the charge against the depraved British press, writes Aaron Bastani, but the way the Duke and Duchess are being treated shows why no one else could do it, and makes a compelling case for media reform.
The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.
Billionaires control the media, and it’s undermining our democracy. The broadcast media amplify the right-wing print media meaning the political agenda is always set by, you guessed it, billionaires.
Recently conservative culture warriors Ben Shapiro and Nigel Farage were both delivered a beating by BBC bulldogs Andrew Neil and Andrew Marr. But are televised debates really the best way to combat the alt right? Or are they kinda dumb?
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly aka “EuroShanly” Labour’s prospective Lexiteer MEP (if needed) chat about Brexit, booting scabs off select committees and the racism of the British press 🚮 thanks and all the best.
From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.
John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor, dropped in to the Novara Media studio at The World Transformed to discuss Marx, flak from the press, and drop hints on the identity of the future governor of the Bank of England.
After a week in which Corbyn was branded a fascist and Theresa May a freedom fighter, Michael Walker digs beneath the bullshit of British news.
“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]